Even before my arrival on Miavana by Time + Tide’s beachfront helipad, I know I am in for something special. Nosy Ankao, the resort’s coral-fringed island base that it shares with a small village of thatch-roofed huts and a dozen or so lemurs, is notoriously hard to get to. After the long flight to Nosy Be, an island off the west coast of Madagascar, guests still need to cross to the northeast coast on a scenic, one-hour helicopter flight aboard the resort’s turquoise-striped Robinson
